PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Luck Chidell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thor Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Silva comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Vlad the Impaler kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Chidell
vs
Silva

188 cm
25
206 lbs
12 - 7 - 0

192 cm
24
218 lbs
13 - 2 - 1

BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
Very strong

Good wrestler
Dangerous knees
Powerful

PEGASUS FIGHT WEAR ( $ 6 and Laundering 90% )

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 12 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Luck Chidell!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 13 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Hilo, Thor Silva!
The judges for this bout are Emerson Jorge, Matheus Silva and Leandro Rodrigues.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Silva is looking to land body kicks.
Silva cracks the inside of Chidell's front leg.
Thor Silva seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Chidell keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
The fight stays on the outside here - Chidell looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Silva closes the distance and clinches.
Chidell tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Silva tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Silva tries to land knees in the clinch but Chidell avoids the damage to the body.
A head punch on the inside from Silva fails to land.
A nice left hand lands by Chidell.
Chidell looking to throw knees to the head but Silva is blocking nicely.
Chidell with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Chidell working aggressively here.
Chidell swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Silva lands with a right to the head.
Silva using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Chidell has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Chidell lands with a right to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Chidell with an attempt at a knee that misses.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Chidell just misses with a elbow thrown towards Silva's brow.
Chidell keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Silva's efforts to push away.
A knee to the head by Chidell.
Chidell misses with a hook to the ribs.
Chidell tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Chidell misses with a punch on the inside.
Chidell throws a knee to the head but misses.
Chidell landing knees to the head.
Chidell lands a left hand.
Chidell on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Chidell lands on the inside with an uppercut.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Chidell tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Silva blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Chidell with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Chidell with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Chidell throws a punch but it's blocked by Silva.
Silva lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!

It looks like Luck Chidell has been cut.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Silva.
Chidell lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Silva with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Chidell lands a good knee to the midsection. Silva won't want to take too many of those.
Chidell fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Silva with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Silva lands a knee to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva misses with a knee to the head.
Silva blocks an elbow strike from Chidell.
Silva tries to circle away but Chidell has him pinned against the cage.
Silva takes a knee right on the jaw!
Chidell lands with a short head shot on the inside.

Silva pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Silva throws a wild body kick that Chidell sees coming a mile off.
Silva tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Chidell manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Chidell fails in his attempt to clinch.
Chidell throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Silva.

Silva fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Chidell, pushing him back against the cage.
Silva tries to land knees in the clinch but Chidell avoids the damage to the body.
Silva with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Silva avoids a wild elbow strike from Chidell.
Chidell lands with a left to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Chidell lands a right hand that snaps the head of Silva backwards.
Silva with an attempt at a knee that misses.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Silva.
Chidell throws a head punch that misses.
Chidell throws a knee to the head but misses.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Chidell misses with a hook from the clinch.

Silva pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Chidell tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Chidell fails to land with a series of punches.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!

Silva drives through and clinches with Chidell against the cage.
Silva with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Chidell misses with a hook from the clinch.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Silva.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Luck Chidell dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Luck Chidell's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.

Silva goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Chidell throws a series of punches but Silva moves out of range.
Silva turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Silva connects with a high kick.
Luck Chidell is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Chidell blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Silva's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Silva takes a shot to the head.
Silva with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Silva blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Chidell lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
A head punch on the inside from Chidell fails to land.
Silva tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Chidell avoids it.
Silva looking to throw knees to the head but Chidell is blocking nicely.
Chidell misses with some punches.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Chidell tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Silva avoids it.
Chidell looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Chidell misses with a body punch.
Silva prevents a body shot from Chidell.
Silva tries to throw a body punch but Chidell avoids it by throwing Silva back against the cage.
Silva throws a punch but it's blocked by Chidell.
Chidell throws a head punch that misses.
Silva blocks an uppercut.
Silva misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Chidell.
Silva misses with a knee strike.
Silva tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Silva blocking some punches.
Chidell lands with a short shot to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Chidell makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Chidell throws a head punch that misses.
A head punch on the inside from Chidell fails to land.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but Chidell blocks with his arms.
Chidell trying to land knees to the body.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Chidell misses with a punch on the inside.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Chidell with an attempt at a knee that misses.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Chidell.

Silva manages to break the clinch.

Chidell has managed to clinch.
Silva takes an elbow to the temple.
Chidell lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Silva avoiding damage as Chidell throws knees to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Chidell with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Chidell using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Silva has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Chidell throws a punch but it's blocked by Silva.
Luck Chidell has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Silva trying to control the position but instead, Chidell has worked for underhooks and has pushed Silva into the cage.
Chidell lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Silva blocking some punches.
Chidell using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Silva has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but Chidell blocks with his arms.
Silva wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Chidell fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Chidell misses with a punch to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Chidell throws a knee to the head but misses.
Chidell lands with a short shot to the head.
Chidell misses with a punch to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
A short right from Chidell.
Chidell struggles to land a body shot inside as Silva controls his hands.
Chidell softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Chidell takes a knee right on the jaw!
Silva has Chidell pushed against the cage.
Chidell working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Chidell comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Chidell misses with a knee to the head.
Silva blocks an uppercut.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Luck Chidell dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Luck Chidell's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action. This is the final round!

Silva looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Silva throws a half hearted mid kick.
Silva throws a head kick that misses.
Chidell tries to clinch but Silva is having none of it.

Chidell has taken the fight to the clinch.
Silva blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Silva blocks an uppercut.
Silva has had enough of the clinch but Chidell keeps him there for the moment.
Chidell lands a nice uppercut.
A head punch on the inside from Chidell fails to land.

Silva breaks from the clinch.
Chidell tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Silva manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Silva throws a half hearted mid kick.
Silva cracks the inside of Chidell's front leg.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Silva.
Silva tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Silva throws a body kick, spinning off balance
and Chidell counters with a head kick. That will keep Silva thinking before he tries any more sloppy attacks!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva tries to land a front kick but Chidell steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Silva throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Silva throws a nice outside leg kick.
Chidell blocks a head kick by Silva.
Silva throws a solid leg kick but Chidell takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Silva.

Chidell takes the fight into the clinch.
Chidell managing to block the knees to the body from Silva.
Chidell misses with a short punch on the inside.
Chidell tries to land a knee to the head but Silva blocks with his arms.
A short left from Chidell.
Chidell connects with a nasty looking knee right to Silva's face.
Silva misses with a knee to the head.
Silva trying to land knees to the body.
Chidell with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Chidell using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Silva has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Chidell swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Chidell misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Silva blocks a body shot from Chidell.
Chidell throws an elbow that misses.
Silva misses with a knee to the head.
Chidell lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Thor Silva has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Silva tries to land a knee to the head but Chidell blocks with his arms.
Chidell using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Silva has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Silva misses with a knee strike.
Chidell swings wildly with an uppercut but Silva uses good head movement to avoid it.
Silva tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva avoids the elbow strike from Chidell, against the cage.
Nice body punch from Chidell - that landed with a thud.
Chidell working Silva over with knees to the body.
Silva takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Chidell keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Silva's efforts to push away.
Silva blocks a body shot from Chidell.
Silva avoids a wild elbow strike from Chidell.
Silva's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Chidell lands a right hand that snaps the head of Silva backwards.
Chidell tries to land a knee to the head but Silva blocks with his arms.
Chidell misses with a knee strike.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Chidell lands a hook to the side of the head.
Chidell is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Silva can do to turn this around?
Chidell lands a shoulder strike.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Chidell swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Chidell lands an elbow inside.
Silva blocks an elbow strike.
Silva blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Chidell lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Chidell misses with some punches.
Silva throws a knee to the head but misses.
Chidell using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Silva has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Chidell landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Chidell lands with a right to the head.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Chidell misses with a knee to the head.
Silva with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Chidell working some nice short punches in the clinch.

And that's the end of the fight!
Luck Chidell showed his dominance in that final round.
Well I reckon that's a shut out for Chidell, winning every round. Will the judges agree? They are the ones who matter, even if they are often depressingly incompetent. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Emerson Jorge scores the fight 30:27
Judge Matheus Silva scores the fight 30:27
Judge Leandro Rodrigues scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Luck Chidell!